(July 26, 2023 at 12:40 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: As for Abolition and Slavery, Prez. Lincoln and William Wilberforce, for e.g. as well as Anti-Slavery Crusader David Livingstone, were the Accomplished Abolitionists of their time, and they were devout Christians.
So Christians saved us from slavery which they invented and maintained. Aren't we lucky?
I mean just take a recent incident when people wanted to remove statues of Columbus because he was a slave trader. And he was a devout Christian because this is what Christians did. Do you know what else Christians did? They owned slaves.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
